The Unearthly Visitor and the Prisoners
Part 1
The TARDIS materializes in a scrap yard. The only thing with color against the grey rusting backdrop. The doors open as the Doctor steps out, he looks at his surroundings, "Hmm, I'm surrounded by junk, not the first time I've landed on earth in a place like this." He closes and locks the doors. He is dressed in a long green velvet jacket, a brown waistcoat with a pocket watch, a cravat and greyish-green trousers. His blue eyes look about and his long wavy brown hair blows in the wind, "I didn't want to be here, but I should let the engines rest while I have a bit of walk. Then I'll come back and try to fix them." He spots an exit and gladly steps out onto an urban street, he finds a tavern and goes inside. "Hmm, Liverpool," he says looking at the buildings around him.
Inside the tavern, the Doctor sits down at the table he sees a waitress with shoulder-length midnight black hair dressed in a pair of black jeans and a black and burgundy striped sweater nearby. The waitress eyes him while taking an order from another customer she is curious about the well-dressed stranger. She approaches the Doctor, "Dressed a little fancy aren't we, you going to a party or something?" "No, I just simply like dressing like this." "Can I get you anything…?" "Doctor." "Doctor Who?" The Doctor smiles a warm smile, "Exactly. I didn't catch your name." "I'm Jessica Allen." "That's a wonderful name Ms. Allen." Taking note of Jessica's grunge style of clothing he says, "Ms. Allen I know you, you're a fearless girl." Jessica is taken back by this. The Doctor continues, "You are fearless, but you want to leave your life behind but at the same time you don't. You want to travel. Believe me I lead an exciting life, I can travel anywhere I like, I can turn back time, I can re-write history. I've done it all."
Jessica doesn't know what to do, she's completely flabbergasted. She looks the Doctor right in the eyes, "Leave now!" Surprised by this display he does. Jessica seems angry but she instantly softens up and seems rather sad, even regretful. She drops her things and runs outside, she sees the Doctor heading for the scrap-yard. Jessica follows him inside, she stops and hides behind a rusting truck engine as the Doctor unlocks the TARDIS and enters. She moves in front of the engine as the TARDIS de materializes. She runs to the disappearing box but is too late as it's completely gone, she stands alone where the box was standing. Jessica, head down, exits the scarp-yard.
Later at home, Jessica is lounging in her bedroom as she writes in a journal. She looks through a window, its night outside and the scrap-yard is only a block away. All is quiet, all it dark, suddenly a faint blinking light can be seen behind the scrap-yard fencing. Jessica leans against the window listening to the faint sound of the TARDIS. She sits down and continues writing, she mutters to herself, "Doctor Who?!...Blue box?!...A frieking disappearing box! He knows me…How does he know me?!...I have to meet him again!" She smiles at that last sentence, she puts down her journal and heads off into a different room. Her open journal is filled with paragraphs, sketches of the TARDIS, and a sketch of the Doctor which is surrounded by an erased heart.
At the scrap yard the next day, Jessica wanders in, the TARDIS is simply sitting there the Doctor is not around, Jessica goes up to the box and opens a door and enters.
Inside the TARDIS, Jessica stands in awe of the enormous room she has entered. The room is very cozy yet an open plan area, in the style of a Victorian parlor room. The walls are filled with bookshelves and clocks, lounging sofas and reading chairs are strewn around the room. In the very center of the room lays a hexagonal-shaped Jules Verne-style wooden console with six steel girders going up the ceiling. The room is mostly dark being light by the blue glow of the time rotor and various candles placed around the room. Jessica closes the door behind her, the doors inside aren't even blue anymore or have windows, and instead they are dark oak to match with the rest of the room.
Jessica hears footsteps coming from a hallway on the other side of the room, she panics and hides behind a bookshelf. The Doctor enters the console room and walks towards the console itself. He pulls down a monitor it reads: "Destination – Earth, Local Dateline 2015 CE, Humanian Era." He puts the monitor back up and begins running around the console whilst playing with the controls. With the pulling down of one last lever the time rotor begins moving. Jessica watches as the familiar sound of the TARDIS fills the room. The Doctor sits down in a reading chair, "Now that the controls are in proper working order I can finally travel again, although…" He sulks in his chair "…perhaps I should have waited for Jessica or maybe looked for…her take her with me. After all Grace decided she should stay in her own place and time. Sigh! I don't like traveling alone." He picks up a copy of Phaedo by Plato and begins reading it.
Still behind the bookshelf, Jessica peeks out she contemplates what to do, she gets up and heads over to the console. The Doctor looks up from his book and sees her. "Jessica!?" he calls.
Continued in Part 2